The National Health Service (General Medical Services Contracts) Regulations 2015

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55.—(1) The contractor must ensure that—

(a)any prescription form or repeatable prescription issued or created by a prescriber;

(b)any home oxygen order form issued by a health care professional; and

(c)any listed medicines voucher issued by a prescriber or any other person acting under the contract,

complies as appropriate with the requirements in regulations 56, 57 and 59 to 63.

(2) For the purposes of regulations 56, 57 and 59 to 63 in their application to a contractor whose contract includes the provision of contraceptive services, a reference to “drugs” includes contraceptive substances and a reference to “appliances” includes contraceptive appliances.